Re: Plant ID

That's colchicum.  A great plant, although it looks kind of strange with the
bare flower stalks poking up out of the ground.  I like to plant something
around it so that it looks like their is some foliage.  I recently said I
like the foliage so well I'd grow them even if they didn't flower.  They
have them in white as well as the pinky-purple that is it's normal colour,
and there is a waterlily flowered one as well.

Bob Campbell
USDA 4


>A friend of mine has a plant, and we don't know the proper name (botanical)
>for it.  She was told it is called "Naked Ladies".  The foliage comes up in
>the spring, dies completely back, then it sends up its flower shoots, which
>are just now blooming (Zone 5 - upstate NY).  The flower looks just like an
>oriental/asiatic lily.  There are five to six pretty pink blossoms at the
>end of one very long, leafless stalk (about 3 foot high), with stamens (I
>think that's the name for the center part) that stick out of the flower.
>Anyway, we were curious what they might properly be called.  They grow well
>in the shade, and are quite pretty.  Thanks for any help you can give.
>
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